David Cohn has written for Wired, Seed, Columbia Journalism Review and The New York Times. While working toward his master’s degree at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Cohn worked as the editor at newassignment.net, which focused on citizen journalism and ways news organizations could explore the social web. Cohn also worked with Jeff Jarvis from Buzzmachine.com to organize the first and second Networked Journalism Summit, which brought together the best practices of collaborative journalism. He has been a contributing editor at NewsTrust.net, a non-profit media literacy tool and news filter and is also the editor-in-chief at Broowaha, an expanding citizen journalism network. Most recently he won a Knight News Challenge grant and is the founder of Spot.us – a nonprofit attempt to pioneer “community funded reporting.”
